Questions for visitors to Nashville

In My Humble Opinion
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Please, residents of Middle Tennessee should exclude themselves from answering these questions, as should those who have never been in the city.

It’s more of a first impression, lasting impression or only impression you may have of the Tennessee state capital.

For those who have visited (even if just passing through) Nashville,

  1. What one place of business first come to your mind?
  2. What entertainment venue is the most significant in your mind?
  3. What place to eat left good memories for you?
  4. What hotel or other overnight accommodations do you think of? (This even if you didn’t spend the night)
  5. What building (of any kind) do you think of when envisioning Nashville?

Middle Tennessee residents, feel free to add questions of your own for visitors.

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  1. Not sure if you’d call it a place of business but Vanderbilt University is the first place I think of.

  2. Grand Ole Opry House.

  3. I’m afraid I was stuck at chain restaurants while there.

  4. Again, I associate Nashville with chain hotels. I stayed at Courtyard Marriott.

  5. The stadium the Titans play in. Looks like it is called LP Field now.

3

Thanks for the answers.

Answer #1 is on target for what I had in mind with the very general “place of business” notion. I didn’t want it to mean purely “business” but more of “profession oriented” place than entertainment venue, dwelling, tourist attraction, or something other than the itemized places below it.

Vandy works fine. Other schools and maybe even churches (of which there are a blue jillion) would fit, since they’re mostly business anyway. (Tongue in cheek here, not looking for a squabble :slight_smile: ).

On #3, chain restaurants are fine if one stands/stood out. Which one did you eat at?

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  1. Great Escape! Cool store, and my fiance used to work there.
  2. Ryman Auditorium
  3. Noshville. I have also really dug a couple of places in Bellevue.
  4. Opryland.
  5. Batman!
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  1. What one place of business first come to your mind?

Opryland Resort

  1. What entertainment venue is the most significant in your mind?

Grand Ole Opry

  1. What place to eat left good memories for you?

Embarrassing, but Cracker Barrel (where I saw an Abraham Lincoln impersonator at a table eating his dinner!)

  1. What hotel or other overnight accommodations do you think of? (This even if you didn’t spend the night)

After I scratched my head trying to remember where I stayed, I looked at my answer to #1 - I didn’t stay there, but it certainly would qualify!

  1. What building (of any kind) do you think of when envisioning Nashville?

Nothing in particular, to be honest. It’s a regular city with the usual assortment.

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I honestly wish I could remember. It was probably a Chilis as that is my favorite of the typical American chains. For some reason, I had the idea that Tennessee had good bar b q, so I drove around looking for a local type place. I couldn’t find one. I was stuck out in a place called Brentwood which seemed to be a typical suburb area.

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Barbecue is a curious commodity in these parts. Some good places, but nothing spectacular. Memphis is better known than Nashville for that. Around here, Whitt’s is popular, Bar-B-Cutie is more of a sit-down meat-and-three place with some decent barbecue. But you were close to one of the “premier” barbecue places in the midstate with Corky’s Bar-B-Q.

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  1. I was there for the Automation fair and spent most of my time at the Opryland, that’s the business that comes to mind first.
  2. I liked all the bars on Honky Tonk row, the music was much less honky tonk and more rock than I expected and the musicianship was very impressive.
  3. The food at the Wildhorse Saloon (I think that’s what it’s called) was excellent.
  4. Opryland
  5. The ‘Batman’ building or LP field
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1.The recording industry. The old “Nashville Sound” studio from RCA comes to mind.

  1. GOO

  2. I don’t remember the name, but it was a motel down a secondary road. Yes, a motel…with chickens in the yard. Mom and Pop resturant. Loveless?

  3. Stayed at the Opryland.

  4. The building would be the Ryman. I DJ’ed Country music for 23 years and that’s why the response to #1 and 2.

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The #3 guess for Loveless would probably be right. Secondary road would be Highway 100 and Loveless is not very far from the Nashville end of the Natchez Trace Parkway, which is a national park sort of drive to guess where.

They must only bring the chickens out for special guests because every time we’ve been there the chickens weren’t out. Maybe the ducks at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis have you confused. That is unless you were at the Dreamland Rest on the opposite side of the county. And the back road to that place is not as wide as a car and goes through a stand of cedars. There’s a rooster that climbs the trees as part of the entertainment there. But I seriously doubt you would have been out there unless you were really drunk. No reason to be there.

That’s cool about the DJ thing. As luck would have it, I had some radio work as part of my early career, but it wasn’t country. Jazz and easy listening. One lung AM radio in one gig and the first stereo FM in Nashville for another.